Community in Modern Scottish Literature (Scroll: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, 25) (English and Scots Gaelic Edition)

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• Publisher: Brill | Rodopi
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Edition: Bilingual
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Community in Modern Scottish Literature is the first book to examine representations and theories of community in Scottish writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries across a broad range of authors and from various conceptual perspectives. The leading scholars in the field examine work in the novel, poetry, and drama, by key Scottish authors such as MacDiarmid, Kelman, and Galloway, as well as less well known writers. This includes postmodern and postcolonial readings, analysis of writing by gay and Gaelic authors, alongside theorists of community such as Nancy, Bauman, Delanty, Cohen, Blanchot, and Anderson. This book will unsettle and yet broaden traditional conceptions of community in Scotland and Scottish literature, suggesting a more plural idea of what community might be.

✦ Table of Contents

Community in Modern
Scottish Literature
Copyright
Contents
Preface: In Search of Community
Editor’s Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel
1: The Lonely Island: Exile and Community in Recent Island Writing
2: Individual, Community and Conflict in Scottish Working-Class Fiction, 1920–1940
3: Speaking for Oneself and Others: Real and Imagined Communities in Gaelic Poetry from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
4: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community
5: Becoming Anon: Hamish Henderson, Community and the ‘Folk Process’
6: The Alternative Communities of Alexander Trocchi
7: Scottish Drama: The Expanded Community
8: Alienation and Community in Contemporary Scottish Fiction: The Case of Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing
9: From Subtext to Gaytext? Scottish Fiction’s Queer Communities
10: ‘Maybe Singing into Yourself’: James Kelman, Inner Speech and Vocal Communion
11: The New Scots: Migration and Diaspora in Scottish South Asian Poetry
12: Community Spirit? Haunting Secrets and Displaced Selves in Contemporary Scottish Fiction
Bibliography
Index